🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

réseau alimentaire

Pronunciation / Transliteration: réseau alimentaire

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Food Web/fuːd wɛb/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le réseau alimentaire montre comment les espèces interagissent dans un écosystème."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A complex network of feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem.

    "In a forest ecosystem, the food web illustrates how plants, herbivores, and predators interact and depend on each other for survival."
  2. 2

    A diagram that represents the feeding relationships between different species in an ecological community.

    "The food web diagram showed the various pathways through which energy flows in the marine environment."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'food web' combines 'food', derived from Old English 'fōda', meaning nourishment, and 'web', from Old English 'webb', referring to a woven structure. The concept evolved in ecological studies during the 20th century to describe the complex interconnections of organisms in an ecosystem.

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🇫🇷French → English

réseau alimentaire

Transliteration: réseau alimentaire

"Le réseau alimentaire montre comment les espèces interagissent dans un écosystème."

🇩🇪German → English

Nahrungsnetz

Transliteration: Nahrungsnetz

"Das Nahrungsnetz zeigt die Beziehungen zwischen den Organismen in einem Ökosystem."

🇮🇹Italian → English

rete alimentare

Transliteration: rete alimentare

"La rete alimentare illustra le interazioni tra le specie in un ecosistema."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

red alimentaria

Transliteration: red alimentaria

"La red alimentaria muestra cómo los organismos se relacionan en un ecosistema."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

rede alimentar

Transliteration: rede alimentar

"A rede alimentar ilustra as interações entre as espécies em um ecossistema."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

खाद्य जाल

Transliteration: khādya jāl

"खाद्य जाल दिखाता है कि विभिन्न प्रजातियाँ एक पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र में कैसे जुड़ी हुई हैं।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

食物网

Transliteration: shíwù wǎng

"食物网展示了生态系统中不同物种之间的相互关系。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

먹이망

Transliteration: meogi mang

"먹이망은 생태계 내에서 다양한 종 간의 상호작용을 보여줍니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

食物網

Transliteration: shokubutsumō

"食物網は生態系内のさまざまな種の相互作用を示しています。"

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